Re: Let's talk boats!


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on July 26, 2006 at 00:03:37 from 80.3.128.6 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: Re: Let's talk boats! posted by David Bamford on July 25, 2006 at 20:35:24:

The Dandy is certainly a European useage It is defined in the Mariner's Museum 'Dictionary of the World's Watercraft' as:-
Imprecise term but originally most often applied to a vessel with a loose footed fore and aft mainsail, 1 - 2 headsails and a standing lug mizzen. In time the term also applied loosely to boats that had converted the mizzen to a boomed gaff sail rigged either as a ketch or a yawl

The East Anglian sailing herring drifters were Dandy rigged. They were not, however yawls.

The Dictionary does not refer to any American useage. Can anybody from over there help?

In France, incidentally, the rig is called a Dundee and is more often used for a yawl rig (Cotre a Tapecul) but again can be a ketch.

In my experience sculling over the stern is pretty rare in England but is very alive and well in France, especially Brittany, where they do it all the time - it is called Godiller. My French friends are very scornful of the fact that I prefer to row.



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